2024 Exhibition Season
The Lay of the LAnd
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Agnes Denes
Wheatfield—An Inspiration.
The seed is in the ground
OPENING CELEBRATION June 15, 6-9pm
From June 15 through October 19 Tinworks is pleased to present the 2024 exhibition season, The Lay of the Land, featuring a major new ecological artwork by Agnes Denes and work by five artists inspired by the land of the American West: James Castle, Layli Long Soldier, Lucy Raven, Stephen Shore, and Robbie Wing. Wills Brewer will be artist-in-residence throughout the summer.
With an intergenerational mix of established and emerging artists, iconic work and newly commissioned installations, The Lay of the Land explores how land in the west is represented. The artworks included connect to land and place through their physical materiality—wheat, sediment, soot, clay, the sound of passing trains—and subject matter—the natural or industrial forces that have shaped the land of the west and depictions of western places shaped by memory or technology.
Denes’ Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground, serves as the touchstone of the season’s program. Expanding upon her iconic public artwork, Wheatfield—A Confrontation from 1982, Denes’ new Wheatfield situates the land at Tinworks’ site as a dynamic place to engage issues of current land use and value, and encourage community connections. A crop of Bobcat winter wheat was planted in the Tinworks field on the corner of N Ida and Cottonwood in October as the first component of Denes’ project.
How you can be a part of THE ART
Denes invites the Bozeman community to participate in the artwork this spring by planting spring wheat in any fallow piece of land available to them, creating a city-wide wheatfield in solidarity with Wheatfield—An Inspiration.
Packets of spring wheat seeds are now available for the public. Collect your free packet at one of three locations through June 1:
Tinworks Art on Saturdays from 11am-2pm
Bozeman’s acclaimed bakery Wild Crumb during their open hours Tuesday through Sunday
Bozeman Public Library’s Seed Library (upstairs) during their daily open hours
It is recommended that you plant your wheat by June 1 for best results. Instructions for planting can be found here.
In the fall, Tinworks will harvest and process the wheat into flour using small mills available for community use on site. Wild Crumb will partner with Tinworks to bake the flour into bread for distribution throughout the community.
The project further expands through the circulation of Questionnaire, a work in which Denes poses questions about the most pressing issues facing humanity, like artificial intelligence and global warming, inviting answers and solutions from the community to be submitted online. All of the answers to Questionnaire will be saved to the cloud and be accessible online as a perpetual artwork to communicate with the future.
We invite you to participate by filling out Questionnaire.
READ the full press release for The Lay of the Land >>
READ the full press release for Wheatfield—An Inspiration >>
The 2024 season is made possible with generous support from Tinworks Art’s Director’s Council, and SAV Digital Environments in Bozeman.
We are grateful for our community partners: Abundant Montana; Anderson School; Bozeman Public Library; Gallatin Valley Farm to School; Gallatin Valley Food Bank; KGVM; KGLT; Montana Science Center; MSU, College of Art and Architecture; MSU, Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology; MSU, Hilleman Scholars; The Extreme History Project; and Wild Crumb Bakery.
Special thanks to Kenny Van Dyke, Hyline Farms; Mac Burgess, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, MSU; Kirsten Ostberg, Assistant Professor of Landscape Design, Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, MSU; Mary Stein; Leslie Tonkonow; and Chris Leonard, Bridger Ops.
On view at Tinworks Art
Two outdoor works by Layli Long Soldier are currently on view.
Day Poem: Sun Mirrors is located in the center of the Tinworks campus on the concrete pad at 719 N Ida.
I don’t trust nobody but the land is located at the southern edge of the site on the façade of the Mill Building along E Cottonwood (visible from Treeline Coffee).
We welcome the public to visit these works at any time.
Your support matters
Your contribution helps make Tinworks’ 2024 exhibition season possible.
Thank you!
Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan - With Agnes Denes Standing in the Field, 1982
Photo: John McGrail, courtesy Agnes Denes and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
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